Peter Helton, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (270p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1742-2
Lively prose and a vivid picture of the ancient English city of Bath—in particular, its vaults, tunnels, bunkers and cellars—lift Helton's second mystery to feature artist and PI Chris Honeysett (after 2005's Headcase
). Fans of...
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Peter Helton, Author . Soho Constable $25 (269p) ISBN 978-1-56947-525-6
PI and painter Chris Honeysett combs the English spa town of Bath at the insistence of a mysterious caller, who claims to have kidnapped a 15-year-old boy, in Helton's gripping third mystery (after 2006's Slim Chance
). The kidnapper,...
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Peter Helton, Soho Constable, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56947-880-6
Recently transferred from Southampton, Bristol Det. Insp. Liam McLusky must adjust to a new police team that resents an outsider on their turf in Helton's engaging first in a new procedural series. When a homemade explosive device goes off at a...
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Peter Helton, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (253p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1529-9
Art imitates life imitating art in this appealing mystery debut from British author Helton, a painter who writes about a PI who happens to be a painter. Chris Honeysett runs Aqua Investigations from his cottage in Bath, England, along with his live-i
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Peter Helton. Soho Constable, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-082-8
The English city of Bristol, during a bitter cold winter, provides the backdrop for Helton’s atmospheric second crime novel featuring Det. Insp. Liam McCluskey (after 2011’s Falling More Slowly). Helton focuses on McCluskey’s continuing difficulty...
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Peter Helton. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78029-031-7
British author Helton's amusing fourth Chris Honeysett mystery (after 2008's Rainstone Fall) takes the bumbling PI and artist from cold, wet Bath to sunny Corfu, at the behest of a supermarket mogul worried about a valued employee, Kyla Biggs, who...
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Peter Helton. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78029-047-8
Helton’s diverting fifth Chris Honeysett mystery (after 2012’s An Inch of Time, 2012) finds Honeysett, a painter and PI, ensconced at Mill House, a rural retreat outside the city of Bath, with two overweight sheep and his girlfriend, Annis Jordan....
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Peter Helton. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8423-7
In Helton’s suspenseful, well-plotted sixth Chris Honeysett mystery (after 2013’s Worthless Remains), the painter and PI reluctantly agrees to take on a temporary job as tutor at the Bath Art Academy after the school’s head, John Birtwhistle, dies...
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Peter Helton. Severn, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8468-8
In British author Helton’s diverting third mystery featuring Det. Insp. Liam McLusky (after 2012’s Four Below), the Bristol police detective looks into the murder of an unidentified woman, whose body is found chained by the neck to a buoy in a canal
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Peter Helton. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8577-7
It’s never business as usual for Liam McLusky, as shown by Helton’s complex fourth outing for the Bristol, England, detective inspector (after 2014’s A Good Way to Go). McLusky investigates the murder of an elderly man who was content to ignore much
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Peter Helton. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8766-5
At the outset of British author Helton’s droll seventh Chris Honeysett mystery (after 2014’s Indelible), artist-cum-detective Chris and an insurance company officer working on a fraud case meet in Bath’s Pump Room. Henry Blinkhorn supposedly drowned
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